RESIGNED:

I have officially resigned from social work! I can’t believe I stuck around another year after resigning last year at this time but I see reasons why God wanted me to stay.

I have talked before about just wanting to get back to mountain biking and kayaking and then I ended up selling all but three of my kayaks and the one time I rode my bike I was fatigued for over a week from long COVID. Instead, God grew this counseling ministry and had me slowly and steadily getting used to doing counseling and at a pace I could handle.

Now, it’s to the point that I don’t have space for all the new ones that are calling/emailing me about starting in counseling so I resigned from Lifeline. It was bittersweet but it went very well, once the director actually reached out and took the letter I was handing her! She was very supportive and all about this new adventure. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off of me.

I continue to have kids at Lifeline as well as in counseling, tell me about “Five Nights of Freddy.” Each one says, “Miss Amy, this isn’t evil.” Each one has anger issues. Each one has some pretty rough thoughts. Satan goes after children and my eyes are WIDE OPEN to it now. They are innocent and a lot have gone through trauma, which is a major way the Enemy gets in. I’m determined to give these kids and their parents tools that will stop the Enemy in his tracks.

A few hours after I resigned I got word that my Dad was not doing well. He has been in the hospital for a week or so with pneumonia in one lung and the other collapsed while in the hospital. His kidneys have not been working properly either. Last night they took 1.3 liters of fluid off of a lung and that brought great relief. He is having trouble swallowing so they are addressing that today, or at least they are supposed to. He struggles to breathe without oxygen so they have him doing exercises to try to strengthen his lungs. It was pretty iffy yesterday and the doctor continues to be concerned but right now he is ok.

I really don’t know where he is at with his faith. He goes to church with my mom and has a lot of friends there but outside of church you wouldn’t know he was a Christian. Prayers for that would be great.

I am very much at peace with my decision to leave social work and very excited for this new adventure. It’s been a long time coming but this is the right time to move forward.